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9780804720472

The Culture of Autobiography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804720472

  • ISBN10:

    0804720479

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-09-01
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

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Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction: The Institution of Autobiographyp. 1
Theory Versus Autobiographyp. 21
The Autobiographical Processp. 38
Toward an Anti-Metaphysics of Autobiographyp. 57
Institutionalizing Women's Autobiography: Nineteenth-Century Editors and the Shaping of an Autobiographical Traditionp. 80
Self-Knowledge, Law, and African American Autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Lightp. 104
The Mexican Immigrant as *: The (de)Formation of Mexican Immigrant Life Storyp. 125
What Happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaikp. 149
"In me the solitary sublimity": Posturing and the Collapse of Romantic Will in Benjamin Robert Haydonp. 168
Hogarth's Self-Representationsp. 188
The Self as Otherp. 215
Notesp. 237
Indexp. 267
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